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Parathyroid identification by autofluorescence – preliminary report on five cases of surgery for primary hyperparathyroidism

BACKGROUND: Intra-operative identification of parathyroid glands is often a challenge for surgeons performing parathyroid or thyroid surgery. Parathyroid glands stimulated by near-infrared light emit autofluorescence, which allows their discrimination from all other tissues in the region, and this m...

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Autores principales: Serra, Carlos, Silveira, Luís, Canudo, António, Lemos, Manuel C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6712745/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31455299
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12893-019-0590-9